Our Identity in Christ

“By becoming a Christian, I belong to God and I belong to my brothers and sisters. It is not that I belong to God and then make a decision to join a local church. My being in Christ means being in Christ with those others who are in Christ. This is my identity. This is our identity. . . . If the church is the body of Christ, then we should not live as disembodied Christians.”

- Tim Chester and Steve Timmis, Total Church (Wheaton, Ill, Crossway Books, 2008), 41.

Published in: on September 20, 2009 at 1:31 am  Comments (3)  

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  1. On September 20, 2009 at 10:31 pm Laurie said:

    Woo hoo!
    Nicely said!
    How awesome to be part of the body of Christ universally and locally!

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